Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno
Shipping is a feature.
Richard Campbell
The best code is no code at all.
Anonymous
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
The Internet? Is that thing still around?
Homer Simpson
The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.
Alan J. Perlis
My assertion that we can do better with computer languages is a persistent belief and fond hope, but you'll note I don't actually claim to be either rational or right. Except when it's convenient.
Larry Wall
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
Good web applications should look like trifle.
Cal Henderson
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
Alan J. Perlis